Tilly (1992) Coercion, Capital and European States AD 990 - 1992 (EVERYONE READS)
Downing (1992) The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe. ()
Downing “Constitutionalism, warfare and political change in early modern Europe” Theory and Society, 17. [article] (EVERYONE READS)
Gorski (2003) The Disciplinary Revolution ()
Adams (1999) “Culture in Rational-Choice Theories of State Formation” [article] (EVERYONE READS)
Padgett and Ansell (1993) “Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434” [article] (EVERYONE READS)
Lipset, S.M., 1960, Political Man ()
Brustein, The Logic of Evil, 1996 ()
Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power, Vol. I & II, 1993, 1996 ()
Thomas Ertman (1997) Birth of the Leviathan (EVERYONE READS)
Julia Adams, 2005, The Familial State ()
Perry Anderson, 1974, Lineages of the Absolutist State ()
Immanuel Wallerstein (1974-1989) “The Modern World System” ()
Sewell Jr., William H., 1996, “Three temporalities: Toward an Eventful Sociology” [chapter/article] (EVERYONE READS)
Ronald Aminzade (1992) – “Historical sociology and time” [article] (EVERYONE READS)
Reinhard Bendix Kings or people: Power and the mandate to rule (1978)
Miguel Centeno – “Blood and debt” (1997) ()
Douglas North “Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance” [HOLD OFF]
Douglas North and Barry Weingast “Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in 17th century England” The Journal of Economic History, 1989. [article] (EVERYONE READS)
Carl Schmitt, 1932, The Concept of the Political ()